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Paramount has sent over artwork for a new edition of the Bill Murray comedy

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Paramount Home Entertainment has sent over artwork for the 'Yule Love It!' edition of the Richard Donner directed Scrooged which stars Bill Murray, Carol Kane, Alfre Woodard, Karen Allen and John Forsythe. I'm afraid Paramount has yet to officially announce this one, so we are unable to reveal the disc specs at this time. However we can confirm that it will be available to own from the 31st October. Retail should be around $19.99. Stay tuned for further details. For now though, here's our first look at the official artwork:

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Mel, it looks like Paramount has delayed this release with no new street date announced. If it's not announced early in November by the studio than forget about it coming out sometime in December in time for the Christmas holiday (like Dec. 19th or so). Not sure why the studio pulled this from their release schedule.

The crooked banner is to do with the fact that whoever is responsible for cutting Paramount's sleeves, couldn't cut a straight line, if it was to save their life. Maybe it's those stupid curved corners they favor. Oh hell, who cares...

A Christmas Carol has been told in movies countless times, and in varying degrees of quality. And while some might call it blasphemous to purists of Dickens' classic, I really have to say this is one of the most fun tellings of the story I have ever seen.

Not only that, but Bill Murray's "transformation" at the end as he realizes the "true" meaning of Christmas, is one of the most convincing and hartfelt that has ever been done IMO. There is such joy and relief in his voice as he espouses the merits of being good to your fellow man. He is totally convincing as a man redeemed. Love, love love this movie! Plus it's damn funny to boot.

Really eager to see what the features are going to be, but being a 1-disc affair, I'm not holding out hope for more than a few featurettes and (I hope) some deleted scenes. Dare I dream...Donner and/or Murray commentary?

Finally, this gets an SE treatment, but I hate all those stupid titles Paramount keeps using, I'm still waiting for the "Double Dumb-Ass Edition" or Star Trek IV. And am I the only one who notices that the banner at the top is not exactly even, it's at a bit of an angle. Anyways, since I don't own the current DVD, I will probably pick this one up. It's both a Christmas classic and up there with Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day as one of Bill Murray's best.

Other that the Yule Love it issue ( not really an issue it's just a edition title) This movie shows Bill Murray at his best. The story has been told a gazillion times. It sells, and Bill Murray and it's hilliarious cast made it modern for that era. Funny, classic a must buy if you love this former SNLstar's work.

But "YULE LOVE IT" is at least ironic - it's the deliberately 'awful' slogan used in the movie by the (fictional) TV network.

This is the same network who are advertising 'Scrooge' as containing 'drug addiction, freeway killers and acid rain' and have a Lee Majors TV movie about terrorists at Santa's grotto called 'The Night The Reindeer Died'.

So it does at least prove that someone on the design team has seen the film - not always the case...

(Still my favourite Christmas movie this. It has a tone, not unlike Ghostbustes, that's rare in mainstream fare these days. Murray's great, it's got some cool industry digs, inventive direction and scripting... I'm just hoping the DVD's packed with deleted scenes and gets released in the UK!)

I really hate Paramount using the "clever" edition titles. Because it's called the "Yule Love It" Edition isn't gonna make it sell more copies than just calling it the "Special Collector's Edition." Whatever the case, I'll consider this as a buy if the features are juicy enough.